Everyone Can Join Us for National Parent Teacher Home Visits Week! It’s that time of the year again – National Parent Teacher Home Visits (PTHV) Week is just around the corner! This year, schools and districts around the nation will use September 18 – 23, 2023, to celebrate the power of collaboration between educators, families, […]
National PTHV Week Is Coming September 18 – 23, 2023 We are delighted to announce the second annual National PTHV Week is coming, and we want you to be a part of it. Mark your calendars for September 18-23, 2023, to join our shared celebration of the benefits of building trusting relationships between educators and […]
PTHV in Denver: A National Inspiration Denver Public Schools (DPS) has been practicing Parent Teacher Home Visits (PTHV) since the 2010-2011 school year when PTHV became an official program in DPS. On average, we have about 80 schools participating and conduct more than 6,500 visits each school year. In peak years, we have had more […]
PTHV and the Power of Trusting Relationships: 25 Years of Impact Twenty-five years ago, parent and community organizers joined forces with educators to pilot a relational home visit model, Parent Teacher Home Visits (PTHV), at eight Sacramento, California, schools to counter deeply held mistrust and disrupt the cycle of blame between home and school. Success and […]
The Way Forward Is Through the Community As we head back to school this year, one of the most sobering realities of the COVID-19 moment is that it is responsible for the biggest increase in educational inequities in a generation. While various factions within and without education tout a range of recovery and catch-up activities […]
On July 28, Parent Teacher Home Visits welcomed parents, educators, and family engagement advocates to engage in a candid conversation about gains, losses, and lessons learned during the pandemic.
A New Framework to Organize Authentic Home-School Partnerships We are pleased to offer a new guide, Trusting Relationships First: A Toolkit for Healing and Recovery, for educators and schools to use as they welcome students and families back to in-person learning for the 2021-2022 school year. To fully heal and recover from the unprecedented, concurrent events […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has tested public education like nothing else in recent memory. That it was the backdrop to intensified awareness of racial injustice in America made the past year all the more agonizing. Invariably, reopening schools will require healing, rebuilding relationships, new learning, recovering the best of what was lost, and re-establishing the sacred […]
PTHV advances student success and school improvement by leveraging relationships, research, and a national network of partners to advance evidence-based practices in relational home visits within a comprehensive family engagement strategy.
PTHV is a nonprofit grassroots network that must raise its operating budget every year. Like the local home visit projects we help, our network is sustained by collaboration.
